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Gentoo Mascots

Larry the Cow

As to current best knowledge Larry was first introduced to Gentoo by Daniel Robbins by the graphic above around 2002-01-02. All of these heads originate from a font labeled Font Heads created in 2000 by Ethan Dunham of Fonthead Design licensed under the End User License Agreement (EULA) of Fonthead Design.

Of those heads only the cow was integrated with the gentoo.org website — in the about section, the 404 page and to accompany certain news posts — under the name of "Larry the Cow".

On 2004-11-25 Matteo "Peach" Pescarinintroduced a version of Larry with body, originally showing an udder. Due to a discussion about the gender of Larry, Matteo decided to remove the udder.

On the right a re-paint with body of 2004-04-18 by Manuel "Nefarius" Zwerenz can be seen.>

Original female edition by Ethan Dunham and Matteo Pescarin, licensed under CC-BY-SA/2.5

As Matteo traced Larry's head from a small bitmap back then, Larry's head has a distinguishable look in his version, best noticed side by side. Also, there is an alternative re-trace by Alex Legler. Both his and Matteo's version have been used in print.

Initial version by Ethan Dunham, now available under CC-BY-SA/2.5

Re-traced successor by Ethan Dunham and Matteo Pescarin,licensed under CC-BY-SA/2.5

ImportantWhen creating artwork derived from one of Matteo's edits be sure to mention both Ethan Dunham and Matteo Pescarin to fully satisfy attribution. Same applies to the version of Alex Legler, respectively.

Related: Ripple icons

These icons appear at the front page of gentoo.org next to a news item. The original artwork was done by Daniel Robbins, vector remakes were created by Sebastian Pipping.

Variations of the "g" logo

Vector version "g" logo

Lennart Andre Rolland has created a vector version of the "g" logo which is widely used by now. There also is a vector version by Matteo "Peach" Pescarin. Below you can see them side by side for comparision with the original Blender version created by Daniel Robbins.

Blender version by Gentoo Foundation, Inc.,licensed under CCPL-Sampling-Plus-1.0